aerthling writes: The effort to buy the MMORPG Ryzom previously covered has been rejected, according a post on ryzom.org's forums by Xavier Antoviaque, one of the effort's coordinators. From the article:

At the end, there were three offers presented, and the other two were bigger than our's. They are keeping more employees than we do, and offer more money. We should get the details of the other offers soon,
so we should be able to know more more then. In the meantime, I would like to personally congratulate the winner, Gameforge, and I wish them good luck.

There's an interesting discussion following the post. They're not giving up, apparently.